Sentences with phrase «stock villain»
The phrase "stock villain" refers to a character in a story or movie who always plays the role of the bad person. They are predictable, lacking complexity or originality, and often have the same characteristics as other villains. Full definition
Credit also goes to Richard Tyson, who is given a borderline stock villain character but honestly makes a case for really loving and wanting to care for his child.
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* John Lone (Shiwan Khan) is entertaining whenever he is sharing dialogue with Baldwin, otherwise Khan sadly ends up feeling like a stock villain.
That might be another way of saying that the role doesn't really go anywhere, but there's a good moment when she complains to us about precisely that fact: she's stuck being a hideous archetype with no narrative of her own, a stock villain repeatedly doing her worst.
Hedges» previous outing as writer - director, the Steve Carell Touchstone dramedy Dan in Real Life, disappointed in similar ways, but this one goes much further, outraging with its smug depictions of factory layoffs, young romance, stock villains, and familial strain.
Cranston, sporting a poufy wig, makes the stock villains in those «Flash Gordon» serials seem credible.
Though he would assume the mantle of antagonist again in later work, Rickman never played a stock villain character.
I thought they could no longer bear to see the stock villains, dyed - in - the - wool, 100 per cent black, armed with a moustache, mortgage and riding crop.